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... by which means they attain high commendations , made much of , and are
called pretty wise men and proper persons , with many God ' s blessings upon
their hearts , Speaking of the equalitarian principles of the first reformers , their
plunder ...
... by which means they attain high commendations , made much of , and are
called pretty wise men and proper persons , with many God ' s blessings upon
their hearts , Speaking of the equalitarian principles of the first reformers , their
plunder ...
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But unable to prevail , they complained to Gardiner , bishop of Winchester , and
chancellor of the university , who , in the true spirit of popery , issued an edict ,
dated 14th May 1542 , prohibiting all persons to use the new method , under the
...
But unable to prevail , they complained to Gardiner , bishop of Winchester , and
chancellor of the university , who , in the true spirit of popery , issued an edict ,
dated 14th May 1542 , prohibiting all persons to use the new method , under the
...
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In describing of persons , there ought always a comeliness to be used , so that
nothing be spoken which may be thought is not in them . As if one should
describe Henry the sixth , he might call him gentle , mild of nature , led by
persuasion and ...
In describing of persons , there ought always a comeliness to be used , so that
nothing be spoken which may be thought is not in them . As if one should
describe Henry the sixth , he might call him gentle , mild of nature , led by
persuasion and ...
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And the first writers of the mirs ror of magistrates , ' who imagine a talk for some
one to speak , and according to his person frame the oration , appear to have
availed themselves of these directions , if not to have catched the notion of their ...
And the first writers of the mirs ror of magistrates , ' who imagine a talk for some
one to speak , and according to his person frame the oration , appear to have
availed themselves of these directions , if not to have catched the notion of their ...
Page 68
... a profession he first engaged in , from his being applied to , to procure an
edition of Tyndal ' s Testament , and afterwards of his Bible revised by Coverdale
. He might possibly have been induced also , like several other persons of
education ...
... a profession he first engaged in , from his being applied to , to procure an
edition of Tyndal ' s Testament , and afterwards of his Bible revised by Coverdale
. He might possibly have been induced also , like several other persons of
education ...
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Page 332 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 155 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...
Page 329 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.
Page 292 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 420 - In style, to consider what ought to be written and after what manner, he must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words and examine the weight of either, then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely, and to do this with diligence and often.
Page 484 - ... Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 156 - ... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Page 151 - ... comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.
Page 331 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Page 422 - Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. But we must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coining. Nor fetch words from the extreme and utmost ages; since the chief virtue of a style is perspicuity, and nothing so vicious in it as to need an interpreter.
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| Title | Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ... Volume 2 of Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary, George Burnett |
| Author | George Burnett |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Nov 2006 |
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